Has anyone here ever considered using RC aircraft / helicopters with video camera for your own personal reconnaissance? Obviously they are not RF-4Cs (I used to be in a tactical reconnaissance squadron). But consider having a birds eye view of a hunting area, checking if the cattle are still in the pasture or inspecting a barn roof for damage. I am thinking of putting one of these on the Christmas wish list.

In my town a guy rents/sells and trains people to use fairly high end quad copters. An underground flume collapsed here destroying a road directly in front of our fire and police department.

He shot footage with one of his quads that was used by national news reports.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ---Robert Heinlein

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ---Robert Heinlein